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FRIDAY AUGUST
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APOLOGIES ALONE NOT SUFFICIENT
"Public Support For Any Action Britain Takes” BRITISH INDIGNATION AT ASTOUNDING
HUGESSEN 'ACCIDENT'
"TIMES" PROCLAIMS
CZECH
SITUATION TO BE ARMS FOR
INTOLERABLE
London, To-day.
London is taking an exceedingly grave view of the shooting of the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, from Japanese planes.
The "Daily Telegraph" discussing the incident describes the shooting as of grave internationa
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consequence. No hasty conclusions will be drawn PROGRESS
in England until the incident has been thoroughs investigated, but the Japanese Government will scarcely venture to minimise the gravity of the event since it is attempting to justify the whole of its operations in Shanghai on the shooting of two Japanese trespassers on a Chinese aerodrome.
For the present it must be assumed that the at- tack on the British Ambassador was an uninten- tional blunder.
The gravity of the incident has not been recog mised in early messages emanating from a Japan- ese news agency. A different attitude will be ex- pected on the part of the Japanese Government. dramatically reinfor-many miles from the scene
for protest against disregard of neutral
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